"Blackness," "femaleness" and self-representation:
constructing persons in a colonial Mexican court
"Blackness," "femaleness" and self-representation:
constructing persons in a colonial Mexican court
This paper examines a case heard by the colonial Mexican Inquisition in 1655. It addresses individual negotiations of race and gender in a society that hierarchized notions of personhood through a system of rankings based on Early Modern ideas about natural difference. In the New World context, those rankings subordinated women, blacks, Indians and "mixed-races" to the authority of Spanish men.
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Lewis, Laura A.
3b8fef98-e0ff-4acf-879f-ed9b1c318890
November 1995
Lewis, Laura A.
3b8fef98-e0ff-4acf-879f-ed9b1c318890
Lewis, Laura A.
(1995)
"Blackness," "femaleness" and self-representation:
constructing persons in a colonial Mexican court.
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 18 (2), .
(doi:10.1525/pol.1995.18.2.81).
Abstract
This paper examines a case heard by the colonial Mexican Inquisition in 1655. It addresses individual negotiations of race and gender in a society that hierarchized notions of personhood through a system of rankings based on Early Modern ideas about natural difference. In the New World context, those rankings subordinated women, blacks, Indians and "mixed-races" to the authority of Spanish men.
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Published date: November 1995
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/345712
ISSN: 1555-2934
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